To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

Patience is also a form of action.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Only love can heal the wounds of the past.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.